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About LinkBacks....and the shirt has a picture of your face on it. Do you call the police? This poll follows up on a discussion of this post: Bullet holes in Obama T-Shirt
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1st February 2012 08:21 PM #1Senior Member
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So find a bullet-hole ridden shirt tacked to your front door....
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz1mzxuiVUmEven when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says.
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1st February 2012 08:30 PM #2Senior Member Array
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if I see someone post a picture of Obama with bullet holes in it on their front window, I'll call the SS.
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1st February 2012 08:35 PM #3The face of Hope & Change Array
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.... Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I checked those guys didn't tack this anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
Roshi's law: "Anytime someone on a discussion board says something negative about Obama, the opposing side will eventually call them a racist"
"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free." – Harry Browne
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1st February 2012 08:38 PM #4Senior Member Array
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that's not the question in the OP.
Originally Posted by Roshi
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1st February 2012 08:47 PM #5Senior Member
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Check the link. Someone said they wouldn't consider it a threat even if it were his own picture, tacked to his own door, and another poster said that the average person probably would not call the police. I disagree. The poll is my way of checking the claims against some, very limited, reality. Originally Posted by Roshi
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz1mzxuiVUmEven when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says.
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1st February 2012 08:54 PM #6The face of Hope & Change Array
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Wow... I don't know who those people are, but they're idiots. Originally Posted by Rasselas
Edit: Now I seeRoshi's law: "Anytime someone on a discussion board says something negative about Obama, the opposing side will eventually call them a racist"
"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free." – Harry Browne
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I'd think they should've shot me when they had the chance instead of tacking pictures on my door.
I also might be flattered by the fact that you went to the trouble and expense to put my portrait on a shirt for the purpose of shooting it.
Nice hyperbole, btw.
But let's posit a comparable scenario. Suppose you were to find a dartboard with your photograph on it, riddled with tiny punctures...would you call the police?
Has the message changed?Last edited by sparsely; 1st February 2012 at 11:19 PM.
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1st February 2012 11:28 PM #8Senior Member
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The funny thing is, it's not MY hyperbole. It's the hyperbole of debaters on the other side from me. That's what's funny. Originally Posted by sparsely
No, I probably wouldn't, though I might keep it for a while in case there was more 'communication' later. And HELL YES the message has changed.But let's posit a comparable scenario. Suppose you were to find a dartboard with your photograph on it, riddled with tiny punctures...would you call the police?
Has the message changed?http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz1mzxuiVUmEven when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says.
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2nd February 2012 12:05 AM #9Moderator
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To what degree? Caliber? Originally Posted by Rasselas
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2nd February 2012 12:12 AM #10Senior Member
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Lethality. Originally Posted by sparsely
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz1mzxuiVUmEven when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says.
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